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First woman dies in ‘suicide capsule’ in Switzerland (www.volkskrant.nl)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In a first, an American woman used a suicide pod to take her own life. The process took place in Switzerland. It's done by pumping in only nitrogen gas, so the person will lose goes dizzy, loses consciousness and eventually dies. Enter futurama memes.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Inaccurate. You can't buy anything for 25 cents.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They can get the cost down in they advertise to you just before you die.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I can only imagine the depressing mix of religious content trying to guilt you, shitty funerary services that will send AI-generated quotes to your loved ones or something if you'll just scan the QR code to pay, and online casinos suggesting you whale for them one last time.

Edit: Don't whale too hard though. It's unpaid overtime for the ~~staff~~ independent contractors if somebody can't pay for the machine and makes a mess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

true, it should be a subscription model. can't remember to cancel it if you're dead 😉

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh god, you probably have to download a janky app with tons of unexplained permissions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A quarter costs 25 cents (unless it's a US quarter on or before 1964 which costs more due to its silver content).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Good luck getting them in quantities less than a roll, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have tons. I get $0.61 in change each night. Save the quarters for laundry and other minor expenses, and the dimes and pennies go into a jar that gets filled up and dumped into the change machine at my credit union

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ah, but you didn't buy them!

This is generally the way it goes. Businesses buy rolls of quarters to fill the register, cash-using consumers "buy" bills, and gradually accumulate those quarters as the bills break down. Then, they return it to a bank to deposit them, and (possibly with a stop at the mint to retire old coins and inject new ones) the cycle continues.

Meanwhile, businesses deposit the bills they accumulate, and all kinds of wire transactions between banks, consumers, businesses and the government account for the rest of the money supply.